2nd Lt. Roger P. Warfield (0-427061) of the 39th Pursuit Squadron, 35th
Fighter Group, crashed his Airacobra (probably a P-400)
on Easter Sunday, 5 April 1942 at Williamtown, NSW. Following an aborted
landing his plane crashed in the trees just off the edge of the airfield and Lt.
Warfield was killed.

2nd Lt. Roger P. Warfield from Worcester County, Massachusetts was buried at
the US Military Cemetery at Rookwood Cemetery in Sydney, New South Wales on 7
April 1942.

There is a Roger P. Warfield American Legion Post #373 in Baldwinville,
Massachusetts.

Just a partial answer, maybe more later when I
have time to check some records. David Silverman a new pilot assigned to the 39th was killed landing on the center strip
at Woodstock on 10 May 1942. It was probably a P-400. Plane was burnt and pilot thrown
across the right wing also burnt leaving just a torso. Am not sure but believe he had
taken off and made an almost immediate attempt to land.

Roger Warfield also a new pilot was killed in
April of 1942 before we moved to Woodstock. Am not
sure but think it was at Williamtown.

Book was published in the early seventies in
paperback only. Later there were at least five new printings through the eighties and
ninetys.

Another book by Caiden worth looking for is
Samauri which tells the story of the Jap pilots we fought against in New Guinea.